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Games and Sports in Everyday Life: Dialogues and Narratives of the Self | 
 enlarge | Author: Robert Perinbanayagam
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $86.00
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Sales Rank: 3139236
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 294
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 159451108X
Dewey Decimal Number: 300.15193
EAN: 9781594511080
ASIN: 159451108X
Publication Date: February 10, 2006
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Product Description
Games of many kinds have been played in all cultures throughout human history. This wide-ranging book explores the social and psychological processes involved in the playing of games.
One player (or team) seeks to outwit another by undertaking various physical and communicative moves--not unlike conversations. Games have well-formed 'narrative' structures, analogous to myths, that are enacted by each participant to give play to his/her self and its attendant emotions. These plays of the self enable each agent to seek adventures and heroic moments. Going beyond the myth-making and catharsis that may be achieved by individuals, the author shows how games have been devised and played in particular societies and eras as means of promoting specific ideologies of a society, even social ideals such as utopias.
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